Christopher G. Worley Bücher

Organisation Development and Change Paperback – June 29, 2007 by Dianne Waddell (Author), Thomas G. Cummings (Author), Christopher G. Worley (Author)

A member of the AWL OD Series! Discover how firms can improve their performance and effectiveness through strategic change in Integrated Strategic Change. This book offers a unique perspective, focusing on how organizational development practitioners can assist in this substantiative and systematic change that affects an organization’s strategy, structure, and process within a given competitive context.

In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be “built to change” so they can last and succeed in today’s global economy. Instead of striving to create a highly reliable Swiss watch that consistently produces the same behavior, they argue organizations need to be designed in ways that stimulate and facilitate change. Built to Change focuses on identifying practices and designs that organizations can adopt so that they are able to change. As Lawler and Worley point out, organizations that foster continuous change

Blends theory, concepts and applications in organization development. This book applies behavioral science knowledge to the development of organizational structures, strategies, and processes.